Skirt-marker.



UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIGE.

GEORGE w. FRAZIER, 0E DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO GRACE F. MERRIMAN.

SKIRT-JVIARKEFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed January 22, 1906. Serial No. 297,308.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. FRAZIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Markers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a skirt-marker of that kind in which the person on whom the skirt is being fitted stands on a platform, and the marking device has an arm which travels around the platform and guides the application of a mark to the lower edge of the skirt to indicate where it is to be cut off.

The object of the invention is to form an improved device of the kind in which the marking device may be adjusted to various heights and also adjusted outwardly to accommodate skirts of different sizes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the marker and its stand. Fig. 2 is a detail in side elevation of the traveling guide or indicator. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail in section of the track.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a stand the top 7 of which has thereon a circular raised track 8.

9 indicates a platform which is mounted upon the stand and which is concentric with the track. The person to whom the skirt is being fitted stands upon this platform.

The guide or indicating device travels on the track. It consists of a horizontally-arranged plate 10, having three arms or branches 11, which have depending studs arranged to receive rollers 12. The rollers are so located that when in use two of them bear against the outer side of the track 8, and the otherbears against the inner side of said track, two of the rollers being in line and the other offset inwardly, so that the track may be received therebetween. The plate has an outwardly or radially extending arm 13, which serves as a handle and also to permit the radial adjustment of the indicating device or guide for the crayon. This device consists of a block 14, having a slot through which the arm 13 extends, and the blockis slidable in or out on the arm and is fixed at adjustment by a thumb-screw l5. block carries a roller 16, which rolls on the top 7 of the stand to assist in holding the de- On its under side the parallel to the slope of the block at its lower end at 19. It is of proper size and shape to fit around the edge of the plate 17, and its arms are provided on their outer side by scales of inches, (indicated at 20,) the beginning or zero-mark of which is on a level with the platform 9. From this mark the scales run both up and down, so that the skirt may be cut the desired length above or below the base or foot line. Slidable up and down on the frame 18 is an indicating-bar 21 which is fixed at adjustment by a screw 22. The frame 18 is pivoted at its lower end, so that the skirt may be introduced between said frame and the plate 17.

In use the lower edge of the skirt is placed between the frame 18 and the plate 17 and the bar 21 set at the desired hei ht for the length of the skirt, and the bloc: 14 is set at the desired distance to accommodate the width of the skirt. The crayon is then applied at the edge of the bar 21, the plate 17 acting as a backing against the under side of the skirt, and the device is then moved around on the track, whereby the skirt isv marked aroundits lower edge. The marking device may be quickly removed from the stand by lifting it off of the track 8. As shown, the platform 9 is stationary; but obviously it may be pivoted, so that the marking device may be held stationary and the person turned.

I claim 1. A skirt-marker comprising a platform, a raised track around the same, a carryingplate having rollers with vertical axes, engaging opposite sides of the track, and a vertically-adjustable indicator and crayon-guide mounted upon the plate.

that it stands in a plane IOC 2. An indicator and crayon-guide for a skirt-marker comprising a carrying-plate having a radially-extending arm, a block slidable in and out on the arm and having means to fasten the same at adjustment, an

upright late on the arm, a frame hinged to name to this specification in the presence of the blOOlE and having branches extending up two subscribing Witnesses. beside the upright plate and provided with a scale, and a Vertieallyadjustable crayon- 5 guide extending between the branches and WVitnesses:

across the plate. GRACE F. MERRIMAN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my ELIZABETH J. PRICE.

GEORGE W. FRAZIER. 

